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VOL. I. NO. 50. SOUTHPORT, CONN., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1879. TSBMHi SIJW n u t ANNVJI.
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••LITTLE aiFPEN."
“ Ont tit the focal and foremort flra,
Out of the hoapital a* dire;
Smitten of Knpendiot and gangrene,
(Elgbteentb battle and be lizteea I)
Spectrel each as yonieldoniiee^
Little OlSen, of TcancMee!
“ ‘Take him andwdeomel' tbeaiugeaiisaald;
Little tbe doctor can bdp the dead)
So we took him; and brought him where
The balm was sweet In Ote summer air;
And we laid him down on a wholesome bed—
Utter Lasaros, heel to head!
“ And we watched tbe war with abated breath—
Skeleton Boy against skeleton Death.
Months of torture, how many such f
Weary weeks of the stick and crutch;
And stUI a glint of the steel-blue eye
Told of a spirit tliat wouldn't die,
“ And didn't Nay, morel In death's despite
The crippled skeleton * leaned to write.’
Dear mother, at lirst, of course; and then
Dear cap'.ain, inquiring about the men.
Csptain's answer: of elgfaty-and>five,
Oiffen and I are kft alive.
“ Word of Kloom from the war, one day;
ComradPs pressed at the front, they say.
Little Oiffen was up and away;
A tear—his first—as he bade gt^-bye,
Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye.
‘ in write. If sparedl There was news of the
fight;
But none of OiSen. He did not write.
“ I sometimes fancy that, were I king
Of the princely Knichu of the Golden Bing,
Wilh tbe song of the minstrel in mine ear,
And tbe tender legend that trembles here,
I’d K^ve the best oo his bebded koee,
rhe whitest soul of my cblralry,
For ‘ LitUe Oiffen,' of Tennessee."
in the wotk oC daath, not ao pm-ipied
thm n ith m to1be nnflonHioiu
The BojalZolu.
A TAIil rODIIOID OV tkOt.
Beneath ibechade of agtOTa ofptlmi
a Zola maiden knelt in iiay ero n the
moiniiig of die fatal 221 of Jannaij,
1879. Hex faee wai pretty beyond moat
of the oonntty women, and her i
handa and feel; her diatingniah ;d oma>
mentB and giaeefol form beepcAe her
the daaghter of aome powerful diief.
But atrasge, eonaidering her natioiiali-ty,
were tbe norda of aappUeatioa iriiiob
flowed from her lipa aa abe raiaed her
eluped hands to beawL Not from
witdieraft or endiantment, or from the
equally powerleaa deitiea of her nation,
did abe seek for help, bnt from Dim
only, the one true Ood, JehOTab.
“ Fatherl” aha eried. d the horse’s
nostrils dilated and hia qrea ahot fire as
hagaaedon the torrent beneath. Bnt
not a aeconddid the noble animal waver;
obedient ' to hia maater’a hand, he
bounded from the bank, and in another
minute toased hia noble head above the
wave aa he bravely brt«ated the atream.
In a few moaunti^ however, liia feet
touched tbe bottom; the ford was found,
and the worat of the terrible atrain was
, At length they gained the op-poelte
bank, up which the weary horBe
toiled alowly; and aoon, to h it ridera’
great aatoniahment, the amall English
> lay before thaw*
te pair now paused to^oonanlt about
their next mova The Zulus, they jaatly
OOBjeotnrad, would make no delay m
oroaaing the river, and their poor horse
waa far too exhauated to carry them that
night to Helpmakaar; therefore they
unhesitatingly felt their wiaeat oonrae
would be to plaoe themselves under the
{Hoteotion of the English commander.
Tying a white handkerehief to the end
of hia spear, Oassatonga approadied the
); and when within ear-ahot, he
called out in a loud voice to the aentriea,
informlog them that they were Ohriatian
Znlna flying for ssfety. They were im­mediately
aeiaed, and brought before the
officer In o har^, who raaeived them with
modi anspicion, as he h ad only jnat
hesrd of the disaater at Isandnla, and
waa in no mood to harbor Zulut of any
Their tale waa aoon told. Bnt
though tbe .officer anppreased hia pity
for.the anlEarings of the maid, he
gave ordeca to have them atrietly watch­ed,
at the aame time oonmanding th a t
t h ^ wanto ahonld be auppliad.
lit ia needleia to give a deaeription of
tba, night that foUowed. All Vhe world
knowabow throngh the darkneas the tide
of battle anrged up, wave after wave,
agaloat the weak barriera of the little
fort, and waa again and again repulsed.
All the world haa mug with the namea
of Bromhead and Ohard, and all the
other heneairiio, with a t r ^ handa and
■teoaflac.haa(ta, held tba fort that night.
B ^ among then sQ who fopght beneath
the red-croaa flag there waa no stronger
arm, no braver heart, than bis, the young
Zulu chief, who had renonncM friends,
fortune, country, to enlist beneath the
banner of a higher Orosa, and strive
hencetorth for a more enduring vietury.
As the morning broke upon the scene
and diselosel the dusky foe, dishearten,
ed and defeatei, vanishing like dark
olonda l>ehind tbe distant tuUa, the gal-lantoffieor,
begrimed with powder, seized
the now seareely darker hand of the
noUe Zuln, and thanked himas a Britlah
soldier for his timely aid. Lnola felt in
that moment she was rewarded for all the
terrors of tbe night.
After some hours’ needful n e t at the
fort; the young travelers prepared to re­sume
their journey. They were follow­ed
by the banedietious of alL Lnola
had bean untiring in her aHistanoe to
the woimdei, and the dying were
cheered by her worda of comfort. Thna,
amidst many good wishea, they bade
farewell to their new frienda, and
companied by the officer bearing dla-patchea,
they set ont for Hdpmakaar.
The evening shadowa were lengthening
aa they entered and rode through the
atreets of that town, and soon they were
reoeived with warm wdcomea beneath
the roof of the good missionary.
Nat long afterward, belate these
offioera returned to their poata, they
were oalled upon to witnesa the luion
of their Zulu comrade with hia rojal
bride. The ceremony waa performed
by their friend Ifr. B-----in the worda
of the beautiful serrioe of the Eoglisb
Ohnzch. And nere let na leave them.
They have aet themaelvea resolutely to
the task of preparing for that latior of
love which they feel oertain Ood will in
His own good time open up for them—a
wide field cf missionary work In their
dear native land. Be it oura to pray for
the sncoeui of all aueh noble bearta, and
for the time when tbe aworda of all the
world snail be beaten into pmning
hooka, and the nations study war no
morel
Tba Floods In Spain.
The eontheaatem comer of Spain ia
suffering from a dreadful odamity. A
hurrieane on the night of Tueeday, the
14th lost., caused the rivera to o v e ^w
and rise several yards during the night,
and whole viUagea were swept suddenly
away. The district devaaUted by tbe
fluoda extends from Valencia Mnida
aad a pert'on of Andalusia, the moat
fmitfol and luxuriant regiona c< Spain.
We have, as yet, only a >ezy bare Idea
of the losa of life imd property. Ona
authority sajs that the total damage ia
estimated at twelve million doUara.
Three thousand five handred honaea
and a htmored and twenty mills have
been de> iroycd. Two thonsand people
have .’ost their lives. Theae are the bare
flgurca bronght na by the cable; the
terrible details of the disaster are yal to
be rmealed. As in the oaa« of tbe
Szegedin disaater, tbe great-hearted
world ia ready to come to the relief of
the anfferera, not only in expreasiona oi
sympathy, bnt in much needed eontri-butlona.
King Alfonao Imitatea Kaiser
Franz Joseph in going to the acene of
disaater, in contributing a good sum of
money, and tfaougtitfuUy asking that the
aaiounta whidi individuala or pultiie
bodies intend to oontribute toward the
celebration of hia marriage ahaU be de­devoted
to the relief of the snffdrera.
The Pope haa given six thonsand francs,
and a nch inhabitant of Alicante haa
given no lesa than f400.00a The Span­ish
Consul Oenerd in New York haa
started a snbEcription bst and arrange-menta
have been made foroontributioni
to be taken in all tbe large cities of the
United Btatea. SimiUr anliaeriptiona
are being opened in d l ttie large dtiea
of Europe, and those who are able will
undoubtedly open wide their purse-stringa.
The Spaniah Oovemment will
do a wise thing if, after looking to the
relief of the anfferera, it cause an offiaid
inquiry to be m«de into the » T e ^ b le C r l ^
A terrible murder took place at
Strongville, 16 milea from Cleveland,
Ohio. ThevictimaareaOermanfarm-ernamed
Jacob Nnller, 50 yeara of age,
hia wife, and an idiotic son. The
mother lingered bnt a short time and
died. The idiotic son may recovrr, but
it la donbtfuL The perpetrator of the
terrible crime waa Lonia NuUer, aon of
Jacob Nnller, and23 yeara of age. He
haa iMen employed on the Lake Shore
Bailroad aa fireman. He rapreaaeano
contrition. The only noticeable emotion
is oeeasioned by the fdtering of the
voloe aa ha relatea the detaila of the
orime. The priaoner and h ii father have
not been oa good terma for sevmd yeara,
owing to a trouble about property.
-Sign Ito a Basar: If you don’t want
iriiat you aae don’t aak for I t
HOTES AKD COHMESIS.
->A tabulated atatement of the rates
of wagea paid to farm handa in the
varioua Statea baa been pKparrd ly
Mr. Drummond of the BritiA Legation,
and publiahed In the L«in!; courte» ran;
Tho’ by aiDyriadgemstbeheavenaaredceked,
To me there is bnt one.
So I look np loto a glorious face.
Into a dark mild eye
Radiant with queenly nobirncss and grace.
Clear as a ciondless sky—
Not bright as brooks that o’er the shadows ran
Bat oh! so pare and deep.
With fatbomldss serenity of soul,
like ocean-tn a deep.
There may be faces fifty times more fair,
Ob dear loved friend of mine!
But If there be I neither know nor care—
I am blind to all bat tUue.
showed that in many long paasagea the
former waa a plain copy of the latter.
Dr. Lotlmer haa pubUabed a defence,
in which he says: “ My memory ie such
that pretty nearly everything I rsad
adheree to it, frequenttyin the worda of
the author, and it uneoneeiouaty beeosaee
part of my mentd fnmitnre, and, eon-sequently,
I ran the ridi, when I am
treating of kindred toploa, of employing
similar and, attlmea, identlad language
withont intending In the leaat to wrong
any one. Writara of markad Indi­viduality
poseeaa me entirdy, photo­graph
themsdveaon my mind, become
part of my own being, ao that I have at
timea, and with utter lgnarane^ fowid
mysdf dothing my thonghta in their
language.”
—If any of yonrreadera arelnEag-land
next summer, aaya L. J . J ., In the
TTerftf, I can tell them where they can
SCO an Intereating head—It seema an
odd way to apeak about deed folk’a
heada, but there ia no bdp for it. A
gentleman livingin Bevenoaka, in Kent;
has in bis poesesdon a head whieh also
looks exactly like leather, and'whioh
waa once sold for tbe rather large priea
of £230 (tl,lBO). Severd teetb atiU
lemain in tba mouUi and on tho fore­head
there ia a amall hole where a wart
had evidently been. Hie hair waa once
long, but had been eropred short by
relic nuntera. I t la the head of no leaa
a man than Oliver Cromwell. The
great ntoteetor waa'embalmed after hia
death, and at the reatoration hia body
was exhumed aad daeepitated, the head
being stuck up over Weetmlnater Hdl.
There it remained for. five and twenty
yeara, when it waa blown ^w n and
ewrled off by a man, who hid It for a
long time and eventndty add it. After
the hipae of aome yean^t waa exhibited
in London, and waa then a^iin aold to
a aurgeon named WilUnaon, in whose
family it remafaia to thia di^. The
present Mr. Wilklnaon will be quite
wUlxng to show It to any American
vidtor who haa aniiodty enough to ask
for It.
w i r AND irisDOX.
—The man who giea awi^ for hia
hedthbringaltback withhimif auoaaai*
fuL-T
h e word ‘impoaslblle” la the
mother-tongue of little aoula.—Inxd
Brougham.
—^Tnere are only three tbinga you
can get for nothing in thia world—air,
water and advice.
— A wise manwatcbea tbe deveh^
ment of hie plena and then benda 1 ^
energiee to wdting.
—The wisdom of the world la utterly
inadequate to the taak of diaeovering
the wisdom of Ood.
—Worda have double wejght whes
there is a man and choiaotar haek cf
them.—[Horaee Mann.
-L if e ia a battle. Ftom Ita eerlleat
dawn to ita lataat breath we axe atrug-
^in g with aomething,
—Hanging is a cepitd punishaaant—
ttiat is, the kind of hanging tbat ia dooe
ion a plump and pretty girl’a arm.
—Only thoae, according to the Elndxa
Adverdeer, with waha or blemiahea on
tiid r foreheads waar.banged hale.
—Don’t eritieias s baehakr too as>
verely, or think he ia of no nae ia this
world. Even he has h it miaa-shun:
—If every person would be half aa
good aa he expeeta his neighhar to be,
what a heaven thia world would beu
—The Uneakyia a distant reflaelk|»
of tiie .laaoxa serenity that looka ont
fiam nnder a htunan brow.—Tbaeasw.
—“Xhi» abowe the power ol aslnd
over matter,” add the edltn’, aind he
eondenaeda ten-verse poem to a eo u p l^
—Every saint is Ood’atemple; and'l^
who carriea hia tdnple about libn a ^
go to prayer when he pleaaea,—[Asalia.
A Colorado epitaph:
Ho wa.4 rare, he was fair.
He was lacky with two pair:
But the aiuuz, they “ntbed his hair.”
—Ttmpura flMitaNinr—Formnty tha
foolish virgina had no oil; now the feat*
lab virgina are too free with the
—The worst eomb and brush in Ohiis*
tendom can be found in the avengn
photograph gdlery, aad the worat pea
In a telegraph offiie.
—Ith a a been noUeed byaPhiladal-phla
youth that the wida bdtaaowwora
by faahionable femdea are juat the
i ^ t h of a gentleman’a coat aleeve.
- I t i a nottheneceaaarieaof life tha*
leed ua into temptation ao maeh aa th«
luxuries, Aa Jerxold add, “ Honeat
bleed ia very well; it’ath e buttarthst
gete ua into troublia.”
—Profeesor—Now, I ask yon, as a
piaeticd miner, what apade do yon
think la the very beat? Third year man
(seomfully)-Why, the ao^ of eonxsa.
(SenaationO-[Acta Cjinmbiaak
—Every newspeper offioe shonldhava
a «n«n room fitted up especially for
oratora, where thoee who must talk can
go and do themadvee jnstiee without
disturbing those who wish to writer
—A hungry-looking tramp waa ob--
aervad In the street gasing Intentty a t a
phuard In a ahop window. The placard
read aa followa: “ Twenty thooaaad
wooden toothpieka f
ing might aa wdl set a pan of ice aad
attempt to akim cream from it la ths
morning.”
-P rin c e Esterhasy, a great owner oC
sheep, wiote to the eompoeer Liss^ to
ask him what.he would e h a ^ for ptay-ing
one piece at a party. “ What,” re-plied
liisst, “ should you diaige for.
selling me one outlet ?”
—A New England man waato to know
how long eider will keep awaet. He
tried a barrel, teeting it every d ^ by
taate. Hiaboya were doing the same
thing, and tbe old man got out cf dder
before the change eime.
—^An American touriat waa vidting
Naplea, and saw Yeauviua during au
eruption. “Have you anything Hke
that In the New World?* waa tbaqnee-tion
of an Italian spectator. “No,”
replied Jonathan, “but I gneaa we have
a mill-dam that would put It out in five
miautee?”
-D u rin g an election la a cMtsia le>
oality a temperance candidato ediad
upon a mmseller, and solicited his vote.
“ I would rather vote for the Evil* OiS
himself than for you,” waa the aaviga
ponse; “ T£a,Ikaow,” aaidthsoM>
didato, “ but in ease yonr friend should
not be nominated, might I then count
on your aaaiatancel”